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Oral surgery waiting times at Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

At the end of August 2026, 1,288 people were on the Oral surgery at Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust waiting list and about 5 in 10 people (55%) had been waiting less than 18 weeks.

Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust · NHS trust · Oral surgery across England

People waiting
1,288
End of August 2026
Under 18 weeks
54.9%
England: 53.8%
Over 52 weeks
22
Median wait
16 wks
Published median for this list

22 people (1.7%, roughly 1 in 59) had been waiting more than 52 weeks.

This hospital's published position is broadly in line with the England picture for this service.

Why this page exists

This page combines facts that neither the organisation page nor the England specialty page shows on its own: the current published figure for this one service at this one organisation; how that figure has moved over the months we hold; the England figure for the same service in the same month; other NHS trusts within 25 miles reporting the same service; the published median wait and 52-week count for this list; the other services this organisation reports. This service accounts for 6% of everyone waiting at Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

How published 18-week performance has changed

Oral surgery, NHS England Referral to Treatment figures, April 2024 to August 2026.

18-week performance broadly stable

Published 18-week performance for Oral surgery at this organisation has been broadly stable over the past 12 months (a change of under 3 percentage points): 54.9% of people on the waiting list at the end of August 2026 had been waiting under 18 weeks, compared with 53.4% at the end of August 2025.

Share of people on the waiting list who had been waiting under 18 weeks, at the end of each month. Scale runs from 0% to 100%.
Latest · August 2026
54.9%
3 months earlier · May 2026
55.5% then · change to latest -0.6 percentage points
6 months earlier · February 2026
50% then · change to latest +4.9 percentage points
12 months earlier · August 2025
53.4% then · change to latest +1.5 percentage points
Earliest available · April 2024
56.8% then · change to latest -1.9 percentage points
Month-by-month figures
Share waiting under 18 weeks by month
Month endUnder 18 weeksPeople waiting
August 202654.9%1,288
July 202653.2%1,323
June 202652.6%1,461
May 202655.5%1,526
April 202654.8%1,591
March 202653.8%1,687
February 202650%1,769
January 202649.2%1,720
December 202553.1%1,771
November 202558.4%1,787
October 202557.3%1,819
September 202556.2%1,871
August 202553.4%1,913
July 202551.4%1,744
June 202555.2%1,707
May 202559.7%1,783
April 202557.9%1,684
March 202557.9%1,680
February 202557.3%1,639
January 202558.5%1,645
December 202458.1%1,700
November 202459.2%1,738
October 202459.2%1,744
September 202456%1,821
August 202456%1,863
July 202458.6%1,871
June 202458.3%1,944
May 202457.9%1,967
April 202456.8%2,038
How we calculate change
  • Each month's figure is the number of people waiting under 18 weeks divided by everyone on the waiting list, from NHS England's published monthly files.
  • Changes compare the latest month with exactly 3, 6 and 12 months earlier, only where both months are published and the list has at least 50 people.
  • The 12-month label is "improved" or "deteriorated" only if the share moved by 3 percentage points or more; smaller moves are called "broadly stable".
  • Where NHS England reissued a month's file, we use the revised file. Months we do not have are left as gaps and never estimated.
  • Earlier months come from our archive of NHS England's published files and are checked against our current figures wherever both exist.

What these figures cannot tell you

  • These are whole-list figures for one specialty at one organisation. They describe the published waiting list, not how long any one person will wait.
  • This specialty covers many conditions and treatments. These figures are not specific to any one operation or condition.
  • Figures are published for the whole organisation, which may run several hospital sites. They do not show the position at any single site.
  • Patients are prioritised by clinical need, so people on the same list can wait very different times.
  • A higher share within 18 weeks is not a measure of the quality of care.

Other NHS trusts offering oral surgery within 25 miles

Published figures only. These are whole-list figures for each organisation in one month; a different organisation's published position does not mean an individual referral would move faster there.

Alternative trusts for Oral surgery
TrustDistanceWaitingUnder 18 weeksDifference
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust9.2 mi3,45570%+15.6 pp
The Rotherham NHS Foundation Trust11.9 mi2,10242%-12.5 pp
Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation Trust12.3 mi4473%+17.8 pp
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust14.6 mi1,60761%+5.9 pp
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust16.2 mi2,10359%+4.1 pp

What these figures cannot tell you

  • Where you are in a queue, or when you will be seen or treated.
  • How urgent your own referral is. These are aggregate waiting-list figures and do not show the clinical priority of an individual patient.
  • Anything about a specific consultant, clinic or site within a trust.
  • What will happen next month: these are end-of-month snapshots of a past period.

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